> Because it takes 1 person, in an isolated spot to ruin a whole chunk of a network.
If that were true, we’d see a lot more sabotage.
If that were true, we’d see a lot more sabotage.
It is true. There is a lot of critical infrastructure out in the open that a dude with a pick-up truck of fertiliser could trash. (I'm not even getting to our electrical or natural gas distribution systems.)
The last mile usually isn't, but recent events have shown that even cutting several cables doesn't have any noticeable impact on international traffic patterns: https://blog.cloudflare.com/resilient-internet-connectivity-...
I'm actually much more concerned about e.g. a logical attack against Cloudflare, which could actually bring down tons of services globally.
it’s been 10 years, and you think it’d be easier to catch someone in manhattan in this day and age but things fall through the cracks. I hope satellite surveillance advances to protect infrastructure assets but there’s really only so much unknown you can protect yourself from.